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Sheer Presence The Veil in Manet's Paris
by Kessler, Marni Reva
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- Comments: [ART HISTORY]. Kessler, Marni Reva. "Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris." Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. First edition. English language. Hardcover, no jacket as issued. 6 x 9.25 x 0.75 inches. Text and black and white illustrations. xxxi, 215 pp., [3]. Price sticker on back cover. Price in pencil on front free endpaper. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9780816647811. "In Sheer Presence, Marni Reva Kessler demonstrates how this ubiquitous garment and its visual represen
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- ISBN-13: 9780816647811
- ISBN: 081664781X
- Publication Date: 2006
- Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Initially donned in France for liturgical purposes and later for masked balls, face-covering veils were adopted for fashionable urban use during the reign of Napoleon III. Here, the author demonstrates how this ubiquitous garment and its visual representations knot together many of the precepts of Parisian life.Kessler, Marni Reva is the author of 'Sheer Presence The Veil in Manet's Paris', published 2006 under ISBN 9780816647811 and ISBN 081664781X.
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